Posted on 02/13/2007 5:01:47 AM PST by devane617
ping texas
Angles only? Not even Saxons?
And of course, the Jutes always get the short end of the stick...
With a 50% dropout rate for Mexicans by age 14, the next big increases will be in the Texas prison population. They graduate from grade school to the juvenile justice system and then to the big house...costing Texas taxpayers billions of dollars in the process. It would be a different world for Texans had God made Switzerland our neighbor.
Wow! Does that mean that my kids are now considered a minority and eligible for all of the services due a protected group? /s
Home schooling?
Your kids have "been" a miniority for years here in Texas.
Interesting that what little of this article I read makes no mention of the fact that the government indoctrination centers have gotten so bad that many parents have opted for private or home schooling for their kids.
I'm not sure that I necessarily see an ethnic component to the issue of fewer Anglo (white) Texas school students, although I question (rhetorically) why this article is focusing on that rather than the (lack of) quality of education. Many parents are still living in the past and believing that a quality education will give their kids an edge in higher learning and the workplace (yes, that's sarcasm).
Were I still attending school today (thank God I'm not!), I'm not sure that my parents wouldn't be seeking an alternative for me to ensure that I received an EDUCATION versus indoctrination in liberal philosophies. It is curious that the article doesn't seem to address the dismal record of public schools across the country as a causal factor in declining student populations as opposed to playing the race card.
My concern is for the vast majority of Texans that want a good education for their kids, yet can not afford a private school. We are losing generation, after generation, to the ludicrous situation politicians are playing with our future. We need to once and for all clean house by voting the current batch out.
It isn't easy but families can not afford not to home school or private school their kids.
There should be no "Anglo" (English) Americans, anyway.
Enlarged United States of America.
Why is it the test's fault? Did the test itself go and fail to give these students an education? Or does the test expose the fact that the schools failed to teach the children.
Methinks it was the latter. Schools and teachers don't want to be told they are failing, as it might jeopardize their political standing. So instead of trying to educate students so that they can pass the test, they push for the test to be dropped instead.
Ugggghhhhhh. Hypocrisy.
I have students coming from Mexico who do not know one word of English and even their Spanish language skills are lacking, yet I HAVE to give them the grade level TAKS.
It is easy for some to say teachers don't want to teach or can't teach students to pass the test. A blanket statement like that is very naive.
Hey, HEY don't forget about the Celts and Vandals!
Home schooling?>>>>
Yeah, and it's funny how they left out of the equation any mention of private schools
Not hardly. The major reason for TAKS and TASS was to put accountability into place. With accountability, there is a better case for vouchers.
While this article that you have posted is prominent in today's Texas education news, there is another article that is just as prominent.
That article deals with hispanic education problems as a good reason for private school vouchers, which is being strongly supported by hispanics.
Also prominent in that article is that Rod Paige publicly supported and spoke for those vouchers. Of course, Paige was Bush's Ed Secretary who put No Child Left Behind in place and TAKS is based on NCLB.
If we are going to privatize the roads and the lottery, let's privatize the schools also.
It is still a correct statement though. We've seen many situations in which testing is "blamed" for students' academic shortcomings. Tests are simply the messenger. Blaming tests for students' not being educated is like blaming the oil light on a car for being on when the engine in the car dies from a lack of oil.
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